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While domestic travel in China has welcomed a boom, seeing over 300 million trips during the Spring Festival holiday, its outbound tourism is seeing swift recovery as well. Data from Ctrip, one of China's online travel booking websites, showed that its overall orders for outbound travel during the period registered a growth of 640% year-on-year.
A China Southern Airlines flight prepares to fly to Hong Kong at Beijing Daxing International Airport on January 17, 2023. /CFP
Newly-released statistics by LY.com, another provider of leisure travel in China, indicate that the number of bookings for outbound airline tickets increased by 258% year-on-year during the holiday, and a growth of 632% for inbound flights, as well as 177% growth for international hotel bookings.
On January 20, 2023, China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced that starting February 6, 2023, local travel agencies and online travel operators would resume providing outbound group tours and airline-plus-hotel packages.
Chinese tourists prepare to board a boat in Bali, Indonesia, on January 25, 2023. /CFP
According to the announcement, the pilot resumption of group travel will be open to 20 destination countries including Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, Switzerland and New Zealand.
A passenger passes through customs at Beijing Daxing International Airport on January 17, 2023. /CFP
As such, southeast Asian countries have become the most popular outbound destinations. Ctrip’s data shows that flight ticket bookings for Bali have increased by 30 times year-on-year, and a growth of eight times for flight tickets to Singapore.
Shen Jiani, a researcher at Ctrip Research Institute, believes that China will see a significant surge of outbound and inbound travel in May as more international flights resume and cross-border travel becomes more convenient.
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